Abstract

We derive exact calculus rules for the directed subdifferential defined for the class of directed subdifferentiable functions. We also state optimality conditions, a chain rule and a mean-value theorem. Thus, we extend the theory of the directed subdifferential from quasidifferentiable to directed subdifferentiable functions.

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